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Movie buff, comic nerd, game enthusiast, humor hobbyist, dad jeans.

[mysharona1987]

[blackgirlshit]

[digg]

[cantstopthinkingcomics]

Superman by Evan Doc Shaner

[kayvsworld]

like if we’re talking big picture here, a female-led movie is at the top of my mcu wishlist (and if it could be like…shuri or riri or someone new that would be nice) but that doesn’t mean that in the bottom of my heart i’m not still yelling about wanting a war machine movie,,, as has been my natural state since im2

[blogwash]

But like... what about a Shuri/War Machine movie? We’ve already seen that the War Machine suit had continued development under AIM, which suggests Stark has been hands-off once the suit was “given” to the US government. How amazing would a Shuri-designed, vibranium-enhanced armor be in a Shuri-Rhodey team-up to rescue T’Challa and Tony (who only cameo) from some cosmic or other nonsense?

[ekladkikodekhatohaisalaga]

lmaoo this might be the greatest thing chrissy teigen has ever tweeted #boyxena

[tsonishepard]

It got better.

[jalehh]

“Fun” fact: Kevin Sorbo hated the success of Xena: Warrior Princess. And not only was he jealous, he said quite a lot of untrue and not so nice things about Xena as a show and Lucy Lawless and then complained that he was overlooked by Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi for movie roles. He’s an (entitled) ass. Nowadays he runs in non-denominational evangelical circles and blames Hollywood’s liberalism/secularism/anti-christianity for not hiring him. 

[rilgon]

More like Flunkules.

[stunningpicture]

$180,000 Aston Martin killed by $200 pink car

[marlbororedgirl]

aesthetic

[autonomous-geordie-deactivated2]

Class war.

[1esknineteen]

#stuart semple attacking anish kapoor

[ms-cherry-tart]

The Internet: HERE IS A LIST OF ALL THE THINGS I HATED IN STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

Me:

[alyruko]

so you know how the ‘a certain point of view’ novel posits that yoda wanted to train leia instead of luke… that could have been an interesting movie too

(patrons have early access to comics)

[styro-sometimes]

Net Neutrality

CONGRATULATIONS, everybody! We only have 10 days to fight the FCC & the repeal of #NetNeutrality!

Thanks to John Oliver there’s a SUPER easy way to do this Do you enjoy Netflix? Do you find yourself spending too much time on FB? If net neutrality goes away, our Internet bills go up and we give power to companies like Comcast and Spectrum.

Here’s what you can do - takes less than a minute: 1. Go to gofccyourself.com (the shortcut John Oliver made to the hard-to-find FCC comment page) 2. Click on the 17-108 link (Restoring Internet Freedom) 2. Click on “express” 3. Be sure to hit “ENTER” after you put in your name & info so it registers. 4. In the comment section write, “I strongly support net neutrality backed by Title 2 oversight of ISPs.” 5. Click to submit, done. - Make sure you hit submit at the end! **Feel free to share this**

[ecc-poetry]

“El cordero / Roy Moore,” by Elisa Chavez

La AP reporte que

la porcentaje de evangélicos que apoyarían

a un político que comitiera un acto inmoral subió de 30% en 2011 a 72% en 2016.

Aquí está Baal. Aquí está su ídolo falso:

Es lo que pasa cuando se pone un hombre en el lugar de dios.

Who let the cold air in?

Who went through the house and inverted the crucifixes?

Whose hand unmakes the good of the kitchen, the strong stove songs and the dove nourishment?

Who bridal-blots the bedspreads? Where are my children?

My God, my god, how can I cleave so close to you and find myself so far away?

Miss Translated is a meditation on culture, identity, and the things that get lost in translation by Elisa Chavez. To support this project, check out my Patreon.

[seadeepspaceontheside]

                       Maybe one of these sessions they’ll know. mb. click images for better resolution because tumblr hates me

[unicornempire]

That last one got a solid guffaw out of me, not gonna lie.

[poirott]

Actor David Suchet was taught how to eat a mango in ‘polite company’ by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. On May 2 1990 Suchet was at a private lunch at Buckingham Palace, per the Queen’s invitation. It was his 44th Birthday. He discovered the Queen likes to invite people from all walks of life whom she finds interesting.

During lunch, Suchet was served a mango and suffering from an acute attack of nerves, he turned to Prince Philip, confessing he didn’t have the slightest idea how to deal with the fruit. That provoked an enourmous laugh from Prince Philip, who replied immediately, ‘Well, let me show you,’ and demonstrated what exactly one should do. Suchet was relieved he wasn’t left floundering and was now able to eat the fruit in front of him.

Later that day he told the story to Brian Eastman, the producer of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, and asked him if they could include it in the episode they were soon to film, 3x09: The Theft of the Royal Ruby.

“We sent a copy of the finished film to Buckingham Palace on DVD, and I’m thrilled to say that it became the late Queen Mother’s favourite film. Indeed, whenever I’ve met the Duke of Edinburgh since that lunch, he always calls me ‘the mango man’.” - David Suchet, Poirot and Me

[gtgcya-archive]

without hrt christmas is just cismas

[thyrell]

this pun works so beautifully well i cant believe the english language allows us to do this

[stupidelves]

shout out to everyone who lives in a country where nobody gives a shit about halloween

[motorcycledean-blog]

[ifuckingquit-will]

Shout out to America for having such a bomb ass holiday. Halloween is the shit.

[thebobblehat]

Look man, we don’t have good healthcare, our education system’s about to crash and burn, and people are still fucking arguing over Darwin. Give us Halloween. 

[gutterballgt]

Let us revel in imaginary monsters. We have too goddamn many real ones to be scared of the rest of the year.

[fiore-della-valle]

I was thinking about this today, and why Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I realized something. Halloween better exemplifies the idea of community, charity, and celebration than I have /ever/ seen Christmas or Thanksgiving do. I am expected to open my door to strangers- lots of them, waves of them, most of them children. Some are my neighbors, some are not, and either way, I am expected to greet them with joy and feed them. And maybe it’s only a token, but everybody who comes to my door on Halloween is given /something/. Halloween is a celebration where community is literally taken door to door, and it is far more secular- and thus far more inclusive- than Christmas, and far less politically squicky than Thanksgiving. Also, seriously, how can anyone be grouchy about a holiday that gives kids a chance to dress up, be playful, wander around for a while, and get treats? We need /more/ celebrations like this, everywhere.

[radioactive-dingo]

It’s also nice that there’s literally none of the loaded familial and social obligation that comes with other holidays. You don’t have to do jack shit for Halloween if you don’t want to and literally nobody is going to think less of you for it.

[unexplained-events]

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

[smileforthehigh-deactivated2017]

Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

[desiremyblack]

(via TumbleOn)

[pearlsnapbutton]

What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

[kiwianaroha]

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

[theopensea]

Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.

[thegirlthewolfate]

Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

[archaeologistforhire]

Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year. 

“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653

[crazythingsfromhistory]

Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.

Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.

[fluffmugger]

oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.  

Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with  the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians.  So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least

[ironbite4]

Ain’t it amazing what white people consider history and what they don’t?

[gluklixhe]

I always said disservice is done to oral traditions and myth when you take them literally. Ancient people were not stupid.

[sashaforthewin]

Happy Halloween from your old VHS copy of the movie Showgirls!

[saintdri]

I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned My Oc Luque to you. He’s a Werewolf Astronaut and his biggest fear is being unable to calculate how many moons he’s gonna come across at any point in time.